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Kansas · 2025-2026 Regular Session · Bill

SB 281: House Substitute for Substitute for SB 281 by Committee on Education - Requiring school districts to prohibit the use of personal electronic communication devices during school hours, prohibiting any employee of a school district from using social media to directly communicate with any student for official school purposes.

Passed both chambers Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 281 is a bill introduced in the Kansas Senate on February 27, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: House Substitute for Substitute for SB 281 by Committee on Education - Requiring school districts to prohibit the use of personal electronic communication devices during school hours, prohibiting any employee of a school district from using social media to directly communicate with any student for official school purposes. Primary sponsor: Committee on Ways and Means. It lists 1 additional sponsor. Most recent recorded action (April 10, 2026): Died in Committee.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Sponsors

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Committee on Ways and MeansPrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Committee on EducationCo-sponsorNot applicable (committee)——

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Died in Committee
  2. Ruled materially changed and referred to Senate Committee on Education
  3. Final Action - Substitute passed as amended; Yea 75, Nay 48, Absent 2
  4. Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted recommending substitute bill be passed
  5. Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Rep. Jill Ward
  6. Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Rep. Jill Ward was adopted
  7. Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Rep. Brett Fairchild
  8. Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Rep. Brett Fairchild was adopted
  9. Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Rep. Kyle McNorton
  10. Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Rep. Kyle McNorton was rejected
  11. Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Rep. Kyle McNorton
  12. Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Rep. Kyle McNorton was adopted

Showing 12 most recent of 30 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source